This week the The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge embark on their Bethlehem Star tour with conductor Graham Ross. They start this weekend in Lugano, Switzerland before heading to Leamington on Monday. Next Friday they start a series of 7 concerts in 7 days in London with a performance at St John’s Smith Square before heading to The Netherlands and Germany for a series of 6 performances. The choir performs ‘Bethlehem Star’, a sumptuous festive programme of carols and motets including choral works by Dove, Rheinberger, Reena Esmail, Cecilia McDowall, and Howells, alongside Christmas’s favourite choral composer, Clare College alumnus John Rutter.
📸 – Andrew Staples